First Project Meeting

The first meeting took place in Milano

There 15 participants from the partner HEIs

This meeting set the course of the project

24 January Milano, Italy

Context and background

The “Coordinated Higher Institutions Responses to Digitalization” project was the subject of a successful application to Key Action 2 – Cooperation for Innovation and the Exchange of Good Practices – of the Erasmus+ programme. The project has been developed by six partners from five EU countries. The official start of the project is 01.11.2019 and it is a 24-month project with the end date being 31.10.2021.

The project has two linked objectives. Firstly, to help universities understand the scale and depths of the challenges they face from digitalisation – to enable them to formulate effective policy and education system governance – by developing and making freely available new methods and techniques in digital skills acquiring, foresighting and forecasting.
Secondly, to develop a new innovative practice (a Digital Skills Escalator) across a selected region in each partner country to test its potential as a mechanism for both identifying where there is unmet demand and subsequent need for new digital skills provision and as a means of building a more holistic offer from education providers. The results will inform a new training course which will be offered through the ENRLMM – the self-financing European network recognized by the European Commission as expert within this field.

Objectives of the meeting

a). Reviewing the Project Handbook (project’s objectives, structure, outcomes, practical and administrative issues, financial regulations and reporting requirements);

b). Agree the focus for WP 2 State-of-the-Art research (IO 1) – led by University of Milano-Bicocca;

c). Agree a methodology and framework for capturing and reporting the State-of-the-Art;

d). Share information on known good practices;

e). Explore how best to ensure sustainable and lasting project impact;

f). Explore how best to build policy and stakeholder relationships for the Escalator developments (WP4).

Agenda

Friday, 24 January 2020
09:30 – 10:00	Arrival and registration
10:00 – 10:15	Welcome and introduction CRISP/WUT Introduction of the participants: West University of Timisoara, University of Exeter, University of Stirling, University of Magdeburg, University of Milano Bicocca, Prospektiker
10:15 – 10:45	General presentation of the handbook West University of Timisoara (WUT) Discussion: Objectives of the project, management research and dissemination activities.
10:45 – 11:00	Administrative issues West University of Timisoara (WUT) Discussion: Practical and administrative issues, financial regulations and reporting requirements.
11:00 – 11:30	(Coffee) break
12:00 – 12:40 CET	Preparing the work for Intellectual Outputs CRISP Discussion: Agree the focus for WP 2 State-of-the-Art research.
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 14:45	Miscellaneous Discussion: Share information on known good practices; explore how best to ensure sustainable and lasting project impact; explore how best to build policy and stakeholder relationships for the Escalator developments
14:45 – 15:00	Resume
15:00	End of meeting